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In this March 4, 2014, file photo, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, right, leaves the courthouse with his lawyers Richard Scheff, left, and Ellen C. Brotman, not pictured, following a day of motions at Fort Bragg, N.C. A military judge declined Monday, March 10, 2014, to dismiss sexual assault charges against Sinclair after reviewing what he said was evidence that political considerations influenced the military's handling of the case. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, James Robinson, File)

A
bitter dispute between the CIA and the Senate committee that oversees it burst
into the open today when a top senator accused the agency of spying on Congress
and possibly breaking the law. (Reuters)

The sexual assault case against Army
Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair was suspended indefinitely today as the general's
lawyers began negotiating a possible plea deal with Army prosecutors. (Los
Angeles Times)

Some Democratic senators may have to
catch up on some sleep tonight -- after being up last night to issue a warning
about climate change. (Associated
Press)

President Obama's sit-down with Zach
Galifianakis has been the top traffic-referrer to HealthCare.gov today, the
White House said. (Politico)

Lawyers for a New Jersey legislative
panel investigating a political payback scandal say a former aide to Gov. Chris
Christie has shown no valid legal purpose for refusing to comply with a
subpoena. (Associated
Press)

Televangelist Joel Osteen's church in
Houston announced Monday that $600,000 in Sunday donations were stolen from its
safe last weekend. (Fox
News)

To draw some leads in the mysterious
disappearance of a 2-year-old girl in Mississippi, the FBI is offering $20,000
for information leading to the return of Myra Lewis. (Atlanta
Black Star)

A man charged with
murder in the deaths of four people, including an 18-month-old girl, at a
Kansas farm told investigators one of the victims took the first shot at
another victim. (Associated
Press)

A Missouri man
cleared of a murder conviction after nearly a decade in captivity has filed a
$100 million lawsuit against police and prosecutors. (Reuters)

International news:

At least one of the two men traveling
on a missing Malaysian Airlines jetliner was an Iranian asylum seeker,
officials said today, as baffled authorities expanded their search for the
Boeing 777 on the opposite side of the country from where it disappeared nearly
four days ago with 239 people on board. (Associated
Press)

The European Union will start preparing
further responses to Russia's actions in Ukraine if Moscow does not show signs
of backing down by the weekend, Germany's foreign minister said today. (Reuters)

Grief and rage erupted on the streets
of Turkey's largest city after a 15-year old boy struck in the head by a tear
gas canister died this morning in a hospital. (CNN News)

The number of Syrian children affected by the civil
war in their homeland has doubled in the past year to at least 5.5 million --
more than half the country's children. (Associated
Press)

A Swedish journalist was shot and
killed in Kabul today in a brazen attack that many worry reflects the growing
danger for foreigners in Afghanistan's capital. (Washington
Post)

A
friend of Oscar Pistorius testified today he felt as if his ear was "bleeding"
after Pistorius fired his 9mm pistol through the sunroof of a car in which they
were driving, but the Olympic athlete gave no explanation and only laughed
after the shooting. (The
Globe and Mail)

New Zealand will vote whether or not
the Union Jack emblem should be ditched from its national flag. (Daily
Mirror)

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